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The Chaology series grew from Tess Hurrell’s fascination with the visual power of the photographed explosion. These silent and still forms are created from images…
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The work of Johannes Kahrs (b. 1965) confronts the viewer with dark ensembles of the banal and the horrible: violence, rage and sexuality. The starting point…
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In 1907, Charles Miller wrote the first medical text on ‘beauty surgery’. The book provided instructions to combat the signs of aging, including a procedure…
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After the first medical assistance and the search for survivors, the laborious act of cleaning up and reconstruction after the Tsunami of March 11th, 2011,…
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The work of the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi brings together two extremes: clear traces of death and violence with the tranquillity of miniatures. Qureshi, trained as…
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Shirin Fakhim’s Tehran Prostitutes uses absurd and sympathetic humour to address issues surrounding the Persian working-girl circuit. In 2002 it was estimated that there were…
